Summary
Panos Karagiannis is a computer scientist-turned-CEO with nine years of experience building and scaling conversational AI products, now leading Moveo.AI’s rapid global expansion of finetuned LLM-powered virtual agents across 85+ countries and 19 languages. He blends hands-on ML engineering and research—contributions at IBM’s Watson team include a patented spell-correction algorithm productized as a gRPC microservice—with startup growth execution that produced 8x year-over-year growth. Educated at UCLA and UCSC (MS in Computer Science), Panos has deep practical experience in NLP, sequence-to-sequence generation, and cloud-native deployment (Docker, Kubernetes) that helps bridge research and production. Based in New York, he combines technical depth with founder-level strategic leadership, unusually pairing academic research credentials with demonstrable product and operational impact.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
Mathematics of Computation, Applied Mathematics, Mathematics of Computation, Applied Mathematics at University of California, Los Angeles